Once the fear has passed, just in time for nap, visual and musical
style are sometimes played in an
immersive fashion by highlights in a directorial
performance by Nicolas Winding Refn that bring some life to the film, though not as much as John Turturro's inspired lead
performance, which does about as much as anything in bring the final product to the brink of decency, which is ultimately defied by the serious underdevelopment, overambition, monotonously unfocused dragging and near - punishingly dull atmospheric dryness that back a questionable drawn non-plot concept, and drive «Fear X» into mediocrity, in spite of highlights than can't quite obscure the many shortcomings.